General philosophy

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Friedrich Anneke

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1818-1872) Prussian officer discharged for his communist views. Member of the Communist League and one of the founders of the of the Cologne Workers Association in 1848. Editor of Neue Kolnische ...

A living being with a capacity for spontaneous movement and a rapid motor response to stimulation. Animals can be divided into two groups, invertebrates (animals without backbones) and vertebrates ...

And

Philosophy; General philosophy

A three-letter word in English which combines simple statements into more complex ones, according to the rule that the complex statement is True if both the simpler ones are true, and False if either ...

Ashab aal-mazallah

Philosophy; General philosophy

The People of the Shaded Place, i.e. the Stoics, so called because the founder of the school of Stoicism, Zeno (fl. 308 B.C.), use to teach in a stoa (a porch) in Athens. The Stoics inculcated a ...

Ashab al-buddawah

Philosophy; General philosophy

An expression used in Arabic religio- philosophical literature for the followers of Buddah who is himself sometimes named as Buda Yusuf.

Astrology

Philosophy; General philosophy

The astrology of the ancients was indeed a great and noble science. It is a term which means the "science of the celestial bodies." Modern astrology is but the tattered and rejected outer coating of ...

Assent

Philosophy; General philosophy

A variation of the concept of informed consent specifically used in reference to research subjects such as children or other persons without the full competence to provide informed consent. For ...